MIT encryption pioneer Rivest wins Marconi Prize
MIT Professor Ronald L. Rivest, who helped develop one of the world's most widely used Internet security systems, has been named the 2007 Marconi Fellow and prize-winner for his pioneering work in the field of cryptography, computer and network security.
Rivest, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, will receive the award and accompanying $100,000 prize at the annual Marconi Society Award Dinner on Sept. 28 at the Menlo Circus Club in Atherton, Calif.
The Marconi Society, established in 1975 by Gioia Marconi Braga, annually recognizes a living scientist who, like her father Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of radio, shares the determination that advances in communications and information technology be directed to the social, economic and cultural improvement of all humanity.
